Reincarnation Monarch

"... the way you put it sounds like Colin is saying it's bad that he had a straight personality? ……

Ortes captured Lombardo's verbal butt and said it quite mean.

Lombardo then politely denied it in a slight panic.

"Yes, no, not in that sense!... No, sorry for my bad way of saying it and making me uncomfortable. But I have absolutely no desire to blame you, Colin. Just know that."

Lombardo's sincere words also broke Ortes' heart, which was full of meanness.

"... ok. No, I'm sorry about that one, too. Thank you. It seems to be filled with a slightly ill-intentioned desire to attack..."

"No, of course not. Even if our actions are not direct, Colin, they have brought in your death..."

"... go on..."

Encouraged by Ortes, Lombardo nodded and continued the conversation.

"... at that time... why we killed General Gorkos... at that time we were in complete retreat. I don't know if you know, but a man named General Gorkos, whom we were confronted with, was a truly obsessive man, and it was inevitable that if we left him alone, disaster would surely have befallen us. Moreover, it was not difficult to imagine that the scourge would have probably fallen on us as well as on all the people of the Republic of Valentin…"

"... oh, I know Gorkos well too. If I rubbed it with him, it would have come down to you, and I know that he's a bastard who can't help but be killed. That's why I'm not gonna blame him for killing him. I just... I need to know from your mouths if you couldn't prevent Colin from dying..."

Shester now replied to Ortez's request.

"... unfortunately it seems inevitable..."

Then the flames of Ortez's wrath began to flare up in Chester's response for the first time.

"Why? How is that inevitable? How can you say all that!?"

Then Shester started saying things that Ortes couldn't even think of.

"That's because we've been constantly thinking about that time for the last six years. Couldn't we have avoided that situation? We've been simulating this question for the last six years, like every day. And… it was always decided… that it was inevitable…"

When Shester said so, he slowly and quietly closed his cleavage lid.